Word: majoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until Seaver started mowing down collegiate batsmen at U.S.C., he had appeared to be anything but a prize major league prospect?even in his own eyes. "I frankly thought I was too small," says Seaver, who now stands 6 ft. 1 in. and weighs a respectable 200 Ibs. "I had decided to become a dentist." He was still fairly small when he graduated from high school, he recalled recently, "but there was one advantage in it. I couldn't throw hard enough to rely on my fastball, so I concentrated on sliders and curves...
...Transamerica's building has the backing of Mayor Joseph Alioto ("a very welcome addition to the city's skyline"), the San Francisco Chronicle ("will become one of the best known structures in the world"), and leading businessmen who are worried about the recent flight of major firms to less congested sites on the other side of the Bay. Last week San Francisco's Board of Supervisors removed the last obstacle to construction when it granted Transamerica the right to close off and build upon a short stretch of Merchant Street. Now Transamerica has the ground footage...
Hope in Age. Whether the blacks' pressure tactics will bring quick change remains to be seen. In Pittsburgh, work has been halted on eight major projects, including the U.S. Steel building, pending the outcome of negotiations between the demonstrators and the unions. Chicago unions broke off what had seemed to be promising talks with the militants late last week after a group of blacks invaded the state A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention and pushed the 82-year-old state federation president, Reuben Soderstrom, away from a microphone. For the long run, the Negroes' best hope may lie in the advancing...
These are the symptoms of the Continent's new outbreak of inflation. Prices in every major European country except Britain, and in most of the smaller ones, are climbing more rapidly than in 1968; in most countries the rise also exceeds the 1958-68 annual average. In its most recent assessment of the economic outlook, the Common Market commission called for "urgent" steps to bring the "unmistakable boom" under control...
...Rugby School of Tom Brown's Schooldays for drunkenness, from Lord Cardigan's 11th Hussars for marrying the daughter of a tradesman, and from Afghanistan-along with an entire British army, most of which dies in the process-for having as commanding officer the grossly incompetent Major General William George Keith Elphinstone. "Only he could have permitted the First Afghan War and let it develop to such a ruinous defeat," remarks Flashman with customary charity. "We shall not, with luck, look upon his like again." At his best when savaging real people and slinking through real events. Flashman...